Cynthia Bailey opened up about the way her two divorces have impacted her newfound relationship with musician LePrince.
“I kept [the relationship] to myself, or we kept it to ourselves for as long as we could, just because I’ve been through two major divorces,” Bailey, 58, exclusively told Us Weekly at the opening of The Tryst Puerto Vallarta on Friday, April 25. “For someone who’s on TV, who’s a public figure, I just find that you have to really protect the relationships, especially on social media.”
The Real Housewives of Atlanta viewers watched the highs and lows of Bailey’s first marriage to nightclub owner Peter Thomas, as their 2010 wedding and 2016 breakup were both featured on the Bravo show. Cameras also followed Bailey during her courtship with second husband Mike Hill, to whom she was married from 2020 to 2022. (Bailey shares daughter Noelle, 25, with ex-boyfriend Leon Robinson.)
Bailey explained to Us that it was important for her to keep her latest relationship private while the two of them truly got to know one another.
“We’ve been very intentional about not being on social media together until we were really properly bubbled up and knew what we were doing,” she said. “And it’s been a year now and I feel really good. It feels good to be outside now. We don’t have to hide in plain sight anymore.”
The RHOA legend joked that she and LePrince “still won’t do social media together” often because they want to maintain some semblance of privacy.
“I feel like [social media is] just not a place of love for celebrity couples, very much so. It can be quite judgmental,” she noted. “Positive energy [only]. I’m excited to see where it could go. I want to protect this relationship as much as I can.”
Prior to going public with her new beau, she revealed to Us at the Bravo Fan Fest red carpet in Miami last November that there were major developments in her love life.
“I’m very much in love,” Bailey confirmed. “You know, dating is really not easy, especially at this point in my life.”
She went on, “I am, you know, a little up there, [a] woman of a certain age, but I will say that I just said to God, send me my person. I didn’t give him a list or anything, and Amsterdam showed up, and it’s been almost eight months now, and I’m really happy.”
Bailey returned to The Real Housewives of Atlanta as a “friend” for season 16, and was on hand to witness her longtime friend and costar Kenya Moore’s controversial exit from the franchise. Moore abruptly departed RHOA in the middle of filming season 16 due to an alleged explicit photo scandal, and was replaced by a returning Phaedra Parks.
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“I know Kenya. I just held her to a standard that I hold for my friends and I just felt like it was not good for Kenya,” Cynthia exclusively told Us on April 3. “I just felt like she was bigger. I felt the way she responded was beneath her.”
Bailey joined RHOA as a full-time Housewife in 2010 and was a mainstay on the show for 11 years before leaving in 2021. She subsequently had a stint as a “friend” on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2023 before returning to Atlanta for its current season.
Away from the Housewives universe, Bailey recently wrapped a successful run on the Hulu reality competition Got to Get Out, where she battled fellow RHOA icon Kim Zolciak-Biermann, Spencer Pratt and Omarosa Manigault Newman, among others, for a $1 million grand prize.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta airs on Bravo Sundays at 8 p.m. ET with old episodes streaming on Peacock. Got to Get Out is available to stream now on Hulu.
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